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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Growl - a notification system for Mac OS X

Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen, being the semi-standard it centralizes the management off notification for nearly every application. You can check all applications that support Growl in the Application Database. You can call it from scripts (apple script as well as bash scripts) and it not only offers visual notifications instead you can send a email,sms or trigger other stuff.

Growl features:

Notifications
Notifications are a way for your applications to provide you with new information, without you having to switch from the application you're already in.

Control

Growl offers you complete control over which notifications are shown and how they are displayed. You will not receive any notifications that you do not want, because you can easily turn notifications (specific ones or all of them) off.

Ease of use

When you start up a Growl-enabled application, it will "just work." Your apps can start displaying notifications right away.

Consistency

Growl centralizes all your notification preferences into its preference pane - you can control them all from one place, and you know exactly how they are going to behave.

Powerful

Growl is very flexible. Notifications can be emailed to you or spoken instead of displayed on the screen.

Skinnable

Choose your favorite visual style or create new ones, you can even create scripts that instead of displaying the notification triggers a webservice or send an email.